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verb

past tense of sequester

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sequestered
Adjective
Big Brother 4 The first season with a sequestered jury (sorry, Danielle Reyes), Big Brother 4 was also the first installment in which players with a history outside of the house played together. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026 The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2026 In the second clinical trial, not yet published, 36 sequestered volunteers ate an additional 1,000 calories a day when on the ultraprocessed food diet, according to a midpoint analysis of the data by Hall. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025 That sentiment is front and center in The Fence, a sequestered and highly theatrical drama set on an African construction site that feels much more like a colonial outpost. — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
While Atlanta’s luxury hotels are mainly sequestered to corporate Midtown and Buckhead, Forth’s arrival in Old Fourth Ward brings an exciting luxurious element to the neighborhood. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 As atmospheric carbon rises to levels beyond precedent in human history and consequently raises the global temperature to levels unprecedented on the human scale, the importance of places where carbon is sequestered becomes ever greater. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2026 Special Forces sees a group of celebrities competing in military-style challenges while sequestered in the Malaysian jungle. — Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2026 Once sequestered, jurors are not allowed any contact with the outside world and - unlike in many US jurisdictions - their deliberations must remain confidential. — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026 The money was nominally to pay civil servants and prop up infrastructure in a territory sequestered by an Israeli blockade, but many observers agreed that Hamas diverted a significant sum to its military wing. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 In contrast, heavy metals are sequestered by proteins such as metallothioneins or accumulate in bony tissues. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026 Curtis has sequestered primary ballots in a room in the elections office in Redding, sealing the doors with locks and duct tape and telling reporters that the ballots did not look, feel or smell right. — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 The company compares that reduction with the carbon sequestered by roughly 63,800 acres of US forest each year. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequestered
Adjective
  • Scattered to isolated rain will begin as soon as this morning as warm air begins to move in ahead of the cold front today.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • NemoClaw operates in an isolated sandbox, so users can leverage its ability to write code, consult the web, and use apps without worrying a malfunction will compromise live systems.
    — Shubham Agarwal, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The trajectories separated into four distinct clusters corresponding to rest, meditation, music, and the movie.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • In what is shaping up to be the season’s most competitive acting race, three names appear to have separated themselves.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Walker says another goal is getting confiscated turtles back to the wild, but as Kung notes, smugglers commingle different turtles, spreading diseases that must be kept out of wild populations.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Those numbers include 759 false identification cards confiscated, 378 alcohol-possession-by-a-minor violations and 98 fake-ID citations during the calendar-year reporting period, according to Oxford Police.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The final, most remote destination in my journey is Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge, a secluded, off-grid glamping outpost accessible only by floatplane or boat.
    — Adrienne Matei, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
  • In Russia, fish processing workers were held captive in secluded company towns or stuck on ships far from shore.
    — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • At one point over two thirds of Sloss's entry-level workforce was composed of Black labor, which was socially and hierarchically segregated and, up until 1928, often sourced from nearby prisons.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Anaheim’s schools, parks and swimming pool were segregated until the 1950s.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • That night, it would be signed by the oceanographer, former Navy captain, and retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan—the first person to both walk in outer space and visit the deepest point of the ocean, in the Mariana Trench.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Kodiak employs a retired California Highway Patrol officer who works with law enforcement on how to interact with driverless trucks.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Solar ultraviolet photons break apart bonds in molecules, creating radicals, which oxidize VOCs.
    — Michael A. Robinson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
  • As the ribs cook, the fat and connective tissue (collagen) melt, creating meat that is ultra-juicy and fall-apart tender.
    — Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Most of those contributions were small, with a few outlying donations that were in the thousands.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The company had ventured down this outlying road before—with the LM002, known as the Rambo Lambo.
    — Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Sequestered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequestered. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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